Title supplied by cataloger. Rolland Joseph 'Speedy' Curtis was born in Louisiana in 1922. After serving three years in the Marines during World War II, he and his wife, Gloria, relocated from New Orleans to Los Angeles in 1946. Curtis served four years with the Los Angeles Police Department, but resigned from the force in order to pursue both a Bachelor's and Master's degree from USC. He later became involved in city politics, as an associate of Sam Yorty, and later a field deputy to City Council members Billy Mills and Tom Bradley. He was briefly director of the Model Cities program in 1973. Rolland J. Curtis died in his home in 1979, the victim of a homicide. An affordable housing complex on Exposition Blvd. near Vermont Ave. was named in his honor in 1981, along with a nearby street and park.; Thomas Rees was born on March 26, 1925. He served in the California State Assembly and Senate. Rees introduced the bill in the state legislature which created the Southern California Rapid Transit District. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1965. Rees died in 2003.; Augustus Freeman Hawkins was born August 31, 1907. He served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives of California (later succeeded by Maxine Waters). He was a prominent figure in Civil Rights and organized labor. Out of the 300 plus state and federal laws Hawkins authored, the most famous are Title VII of the Civil Rights of 1964 which was the Equal Employment Opportunity and Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act, informally known as as the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Act. Hawkins died in 2007 at the age of 100, making him the oldest living person to have served in Congress at the time. Sharing a large leather sofa chair, on the right is California's 26th Congressional District Representative, Thomas Rees listening in to Representative Augustus Hawkins, who sits on the left arm of the chair with one leg crossed over resting on his knee. The two men are in Rees' Congressional Office in Washington, D.C. Photograph circa 1965. See images 00119143 through 00119145 and 00137907 through 00137941 for additional photos in this series.
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